On Thursday morning, September 28, we heard that Prof. Henry R. Van Til had suffered a heart attack while in his office at Calvin College. A little while later we were shocked to learn that he passed away on the way to Butterworth Hospital. The brother had been troubled with a heart condition for some time […]
“The Lord is the strength of my life, of whom shall I be afraid? Wait for the Lord. Be strong and let thy heart take courage; Yea, wait thou for the Lord.” These words of the Psalmist are the words which a devout father, an earnest teacher, and a loyal friend would desire to have spoken about […]
SOUNDS LIKE TODAY “Within the last twelve months foreign missions have been more talked about in the Church than at any time I can remember. The appeals made in connection with them have been frequent and importunate. The cause has been pleaded with every kind of argument. The actual condition of the non-Christian world has […]
This contribution will be followed in the December issue by a second article, also by Dr. Praasma, on: The Confession of Man. These articles are written in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the preparation of the Belgic Confession by the Christian martyr, Guido de Bres. This year we celebrate the fourth centennial of the […]
The reviewer received this pamphlet from the Estonian Society of Los Angeles, California, which is concerned to awaken the American public to the menace of Communism for the free world. but more especially as a threat to the life of the Churches. The author. Prof. […]
One of the significant matters which required action by our Synod of last summer concerned a question regarding the correctness of a decision made by the Synod of 1960. The matter at issue involved the authority of our classes over their consistories. It is in connection with this case that I have been asked to write an […]
And as it came to pass in the days of Noah, even so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. Luke 17:26, 27 […]
Likewise even as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all; after the same manner shall it be in the day […]
But know this, that in the last days grievous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, railers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good, traitors, headstrong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; holding […]
For the time will come when they will not endure the sound doctrine; but, having itching ears, will heap to themselves after their own lusts; and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside unto fables. II Timothy 4:3, 4 The signs of the times arc seen both within and without the […]